A review by nelli_lakatos
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

โ€œ๐’ฏ๐’ฝ๐‘’ โ„’๐‘œ๐“‡๐’น ๐’พ๐“ˆ ๐“‚๐“Ž ๐“๐’พ๐‘”๐’ฝ๐“‰ ๐’ถ๐“ƒ๐’น ๐“‚๐“Ž ๐“ˆ๐’ถ๐“๐“‹๐’ถ๐“‰๐’พ๐‘œ๐“ƒ; ๐’ฒ๐’ฝ๐‘œ๐“‚ ๐“ˆ๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“๐“ โ„ ๐’ป๐‘’๐’ถ๐“‡? ๐’ฏ๐’ฝ๐‘’ โ„’๐‘œ๐“‡๐’น ๐’พ๐“ˆ ๐“‰๐’ฝ๐‘’ ๐“ˆ๐“‰๐“‡๐‘’๐“ƒ๐‘”๐“‰๐’ฝ ๐‘œ๐’ป ๐“‚๐“Ž๐“๐’พ๐’ป๐‘’; ๐’ช๐’ป ๐“Œ๐’ฝ๐‘œ๐“‚ ๐“ˆ๐’ฝ๐’ถ๐“๐“ โ„ ๐’ท๐‘’ ๐’ถ๐’ป๐“‡๐’ถ๐’พ๐’น?โ€

With a captivating cover and title ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ ๐ƒ๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ฌ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ was an entertaining horror read exploring the themes of Christian cult, demons, lesbian relationship and an autistic main character. 

There was so many clever ideas in this story, it was a true page turner from the start. Honestly I was very surprised on the demons, I rarely read the synopsis so based on the title and the cover demons werenโ€™t my first thought going into this book but I wasnโ€™t disappointed. I really liked Rose our main character, I loved her faith in God and I was so sad when she lost all her faith by the end of the book. It was a weird character development in my opinion, like she developed negatively. Other that that I really enjoyed my time reading this book, I annotated so many engaging quotes that grabbed my attention. Overall it was a wonderful read and I highly recommend it to anyone!